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Adolescence, 12e (Steinberg)
Chapter 2 Cognitive Transitions
1) Which of the following is one of the five chief changes in cognition during adolescence?
A) multidimensional thought
B) rules-based thought
C) concrete reasoning
D) limited imagination
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Remember
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APA LO: 1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology's content domains.
2) Dan, an adolescent, has more developed cognitive skills than his 6-year-old brother Timmy
because Timmy's thinking
A) is, in general, bound to what he can directly observe.
B) moves easily between specific and abstract ideas.
C) systematically generates alternative possibilities and explanations.
D) is more imaginative and less focused on the real world.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Understand; Apply
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology.
3) Bickering and squabbling between teenagers and their parents is largely caused by
A) the generation gap between parents and children.
B) ongoing hormonal changes in adolescents.
C) adolescents' ability to formulate counterarguments.
D) adolescents' increasingly antisocial tendencies.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Apply
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 2.3 Demonstrate psychology information literacy.
4) Tam is good at drawing conclusions from given information. Thus, Tam is good at ________
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reasoning.
A) hypothetical
B) deductive
C) abstract
D) relative
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
5) Which of the following supports adolescents' improved ability to use deductive reasoning, as
described in the text?
A) the ability to respond instinctively to a simple question
B) the ability to stop oneself from acting automatically
C) the ability to make an inference that rejects accumulated evidence
D) increasing comfort with concrete, logical situations
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology's content domains.
6) Which term below refers to the ability to suspend beliefs about something in order to argue in
the abstract?
A) hypothetical thinking
B) social cognition
C) mutual perspective-taking
D) impression formation
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
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7) Which of these is a feature of hypothetical thinking?
A) seeing beyond what is directly observable
B) applying concrete reasoning to assess what is possible
C) being limited to imagining the logic behind one's own argument
D) being aware of events that one has witnessed in person
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology's content domains.
8) Joey enjoys playing the devil's advocate and is always stirring up discussions with his contrary
positions. This ability is one aspect of
A) hypothetical thinking.
B) social cognition.
C) thinking about thinking itself.
D) impression formation.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Apply
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology.
9) The ability to see beyond what is directly observable and reason in terms of what might be
possible is called
A) theory of mind.
B) hypothetical thinking.
C) imaginary audience.
D) formal operations.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
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Adolescence, 12e (Steinberg)
Chapter 2 Cognitive Transitions
1) Which of the following is one of the five chief changes in cognition during adolescence?
A) multidimensional thought
B) rules-based thought
C) concrete reasoning
D) limited imagination
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology's content domains.
2) Dan, an adolescent, has more developed cognitive skills than his 6-year-old brother Timmy
because Timmy's thinking
A) is, in general, bound to what he can directly observe.
B) moves easily between specific and abstract ideas.
C) systematically generates alternative possibilities and explanations.
D) is more imaginative and less focused on the real world.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Understand; Apply
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology.
3) Bickering and squabbling between teenagers and their parents is largely caused by
A) the generation gap between parents and children.
B) ongoing hormonal changes in adolescents.
C) adolescents' ability to formulate counterarguments.
D) adolescents' increasingly antisocial tendencies.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Apply
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 2.3 Demonstrate psychology information literacy.
4) Tam is good at drawing conclusions from given information. Thus, Tam is good at ________
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reasoning.
A) hypothetical
B) deductive
C) abstract
D) relative
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
5) Which of the following supports adolescents' improved ability to use deductive reasoning, as
described in the text?
A) the ability to respond instinctively to a simple question
B) the ability to stop oneself from acting automatically
C) the ability to make an inference that rejects accumulated evidence
D) increasing comfort with concrete, logical situations
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology's content domains.
6) Which term below refers to the ability to suspend beliefs about something in order to argue in
the abstract?
A) hypothetical thinking
B) social cognition
C) mutual perspective-taking
D) impression formation
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
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7) Which of these is a feature of hypothetical thinking?
A) seeing beyond what is directly observable
B) applying concrete reasoning to assess what is possible
C) being limited to imagining the logic behind one's own argument
D) being aware of events that one has witnessed in person
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Understand
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology's content domains.
8) Joey enjoys playing the devil's advocate and is always stirring up discussions with his contrary
positions. This ability is one aspect of
A) hypothetical thinking.
B) social cognition.
C) thinking about thinking itself.
D) impression formation.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Apply
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.3 Describe applications of psychology.
9) The ability to see beyond what is directly observable and reason in terms of what might be
possible is called
A) theory of mind.
B) hypothetical thinking.
C) imaginary audience.
D) formal operations.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 02-01 Describe the five main changes in thinking that characterize the
transition from childhood to adolescence.
Bloom's: Remember
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
APA LO: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
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